Southwest Counseling Center, Inc.
Southwest Counseling Center is dedicated to providing the highest quality Behavioral Health Services delivered with compassion and respect, and in a manner that enhances recovery and resiliency.
Description:
Adult Outpatient Services
Outpatient psychiatric and counseling services are provided to individuals experiencing mental illness, alcoholism, and drug abuse. Counseling and therapy help to develop the client's capacity to resolve and cope with emotional and behavioral problems, to prevent deterioration of the client's mental health, and to enhance the client's ability to function in the community. Individual, family, and group methods are provided by an interdisciplinary team of mental health professionals. The Center currently offers more than 25 groups, and more will be developed as client needs dictate. The Center also provides psychiatric services and medication monitoring.
SWCC operates the following programs as part of its outpatient component: specialized services for both victims of sexual abuse and for offenders; counseling services for probation, parole, and Detention Center clients; in-home services for seriously emotionally disturbed children; parent and community education; and Employee Assistance Programs.
Nursing and Medical Services
Psychiatric and nursing services are provided for children, adolescents and adults. The medical and nursing staff consists of psychiatrists, registered nurse, a clinical nurse specialist and a psychiatric case manager. The services provided in this program include psychiatric diagnostic evaluations, medication management, referrals and liaison to health care providers as well as linkage to other resources. The
quality of care to consumers is enhanced by providing prompt access to the medical and nursing staff, crisis stabilization and continuity of care in a multi-disciplinary team setting.
Comprehensive Community Support Services
The Center's CCSS program serves individuals with chronic mental illness or who are homeless and have a mental illness. This program is essential to the provision of meaningful community-based services to individuals who are coming out of the state hospital or another inpatient service, or who are at high risk for inpatient services. Community Support Specialists provide client assessments to determine which domains in the consumers life are effected by their mental illness, and then assist the consumers with the life skills needed to be able to function in those areas. The core of the program is its commitment to client-driven services provided through a collaborative, continuous-care team process.
Psychosocial Rehabilitation Program
This program is designed to educate clients in the skills necessary to become responsible, contributing members of our community. PSR is a service that works with adults diagnosed with severely disabling mental illnesses. Also known as the Downtown Friendship House, this program is structured as an integrated house and is open Monday through Thursday from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm and Friday from 9:00 am to 1:30 pm. The different skill areas taught at PSR depend on the needs of our consumers. Basic Living Skills, Psychosocial Skills and Therapeutic Socialization are some of the classes that are provided by the staff.
Transitional Living Program
The Transitional Living Center (TLC) is a 24-hour residential treatment program designed to teach clients the skills necessary to live in the community in an independent or supported setting. Behavioral and therapeutic interventions focus on individual, client-centered treatment plans that support positive change and decreased psychiatric hospitalization. This is a voluntary program which serves adults over 18 years of age with a severe mental disorder. TLC also offers life skills training, resident empowerment groups, employment and educational support, recreation and a safe environment for which to reside.
Child and Adolescent Services
At Southwest Counseling Center, we understand the special needs that children and their families have. This program provides intensive case management and home based services, outpatient psychiatric services, medication management and counseling to seriously emotionally disturbed children and adolescents or children at high risk for inpatient services. By working together, the families, psychiatrists, therapists and case managers, we are able to individualized care in a tranquil environment with intensive family involvement.
Assertive Community Treatment
The ACT program is designed to work with those individuals that need more intense services to prevent deterioration of mental health and/or substance abuse issues and to increase consumer's ability to function in various aspects of their lives. This program has a small consumer to staff ratio, as well as a variety of staff expertise to assist in these endeavors.
Mobile Crisis Team
The Mobile Crisis Response Team are licensed counselors and social workers dedicated to provide behavioral health services “on the street” 24/7. We are linked to the Mesilla Valley Regional Dispatch Authority and provide behavioral health first responder services at the scene of emergency in support of other first responder agencies. The program participates in interventions, triage, clinical assessments, consulting services to on-the-scene first responders, brief counseling, facilitate referrals, grief support, and other emergent services, especially those related to Methamphetamine abuse. Staff members are trained and equipped to work in different environments in which crises may occur.
History:
Southwest Counseling Center is the longest continuously running community mental health center in New Mexico, having been established under the Community Mental Health Center Act of 1963. President Kennedy signed the Community Mental Health Center Act only shortly before his tragic assassination. The Center is a private, non profit behavioral health center.
Contact people:
Office fax number: (575) 647-2898
Languages Spoken: English, Spanish
Address:
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100 W. Griggs AvenueLas Cruces, NM 88001(See a map) |
Web Site: http://www.swccnm.com
Directions:
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Located in the downtown mall area of Las Cruces at the corner of Griggs and Water streets.
Nearest Metro/Subway Stop: N/A
Nearest Bus Stop: Main Street at Lohman, 1 minute walk |
| Last updated on October 28, 2009 |
